A simple question about capital ship crews

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Is it possible to change the number of capital ship crews required for each capital ships? for exemple, if i add a superduper capital ship, would it be possible to change the cost for about 2 or 3 capitalship crews for each one?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

He means Command, not Supply.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

It's not possible. The only control we have "right now" is with fleet supply. This may change with Rebellion and Titans, we just don't know much about Rebellion at this point other than what we can speculate.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

oh ok too bad then. And another question a little off topic, how can i add new weapon types if possible?

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Go to English.str and rename the weapons to whatever you like.

You can also change them to Projectiles, Beams, or Missile type weapons if you copy over the specific modifier lines.

Particle effects change how the weapon looks.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

oh ok i didn't know we could do that. But the problem is that it woudl also chnage the name of other faction's weapons using the same weapon type. What i would like is to just add a new one.

I tried in some ship's files to change the weapon type to, for exemple "superplasma" but it would crash ingame.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Yep, that would happen if you tried to make a new one. Unfortunately you have to use existing weapon types, you can only rename them in the string file.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah i just checked other mods with new races. They all have existing weapon types, only the particles were new

Strange because in this game, you can add anything from new race, new ships, new backgrounds... exept for weapon types xD

Well thanks anyway :)

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Joebenz, reply 7
oh ok i didn't know we could do that. But the problem is that it woudl also chnage the name of other faction's weapons using the same weapon type. What i would like is to just add a new one.

This is true, but at least 3 valid weapon types are unused by the vanilla game, so you can rename them in the String file without any consequences. See this thread for details.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

basePrice
    credits 31000.000000
    metal 4000.000000
    crystal 2200.000000
slotCount 372.000000


slotCount - how much fleet supply is used, varies with ship.  Capitalships always cost "1" capital slot.

Somehow, slotCount multiplied by some number probably equals crew aboard, but SOASE doesn't use crew levels, ship performance and stats aren't affected by crew levels.